18 March 2020 In the light of reports that local newspaper revenues are in freefall, Axate, the casual payments system for media, is offering an immediate solution to help sustain local news provision

So… what’s the story behind Axate and the FutureNewsFund? It all started in September 2018, when DCMS issued a call for evidence in Dame Cairncross' review into the the challenges facing highquality j

Axate is delighted to be one of the winning entries to Nesta’s Future News Pilot Fund. The grant awarded will be used to fund a unique partnership with digital news publishers who will use Axate’s tec

This article originally appeared on The Drum, on 28th November 2019. Axate, a digital news micropayment tool founded by media veteran Dominic Younghttps://www.thedrum.com/opinion/2019/08/27/facebookca

This post is a text summaryhttps://www.inma.org/blogs/conference/post.cfm/thenewinternetnewsmediamovesbeyonddigitalplatforms of Axate CEO Dominic Young’s webinar presentation for INMA, written by Shel

This article originally appeared on What’s New in Publishinghttps://whatsnewinpublishing.com/facebooknewstabpublishersshouldbeskeptical/, on 29th October 2019. Much has been said about Facebook’s upco

Lord Hall of the BBC observed at the Royal Television Society convention in Cambridge recently that the already crowded TV streaming market is about to get a lot busier with the entrance of Disney and

This article was originally published on The Drumhttps://www.thedrum.com/opinion/2019/08/27/facebookcallingpublishersbluffwithitsnewstab, on 27th August 2019. Facebook has announced that it will pay p

The parlous state of journalism is mentioned frequently alongside such dark and contemporary issues as “fake news,” the increasing prevalence of nationalism and extremism, and electoral strangeness su

This article originally appeared on What’s New in Publishinghttps://whatsnewinpublishing.com/theproblemwithmodernpublishingmakingmoney/ on 8th August 2019. According to a recent articlehttps://digiday

Didn’t Axate used to be called Agate? Yes, it’s true. When we launched we went by the name Agate. It’s a lovely, beautiful, mineral the picture on our front page is a piece of Agate we have in the off

This article was originally published in Reactionhttps://reaction.life/betterbritainpermissionandpaymentabetterinternet/ as part of their series on Better Britain. Reaction uses Axate to charge for so

This article was originally published by The Drumhttps://www.thedrum.com/opinion/2019/05/03/whyoldfashionedmediasyndicationdealsaremakingcomeback, on 3rd May 2019. Syndication deals are making a comeb

This article was originally published on The Drumhttps://www.thedrum.com/opinion/2019/03/25/whyapplesmootednetflixnewsbadjournalism, on 25th March 2019. It wasn’t long ago that an announcement of Appl

Publishers have recently responded with frustrationhttps://whatsnewinpublishing.com/isgoogleliterallytryingtokilloffthefourthestatepublishersreactasallmeteredpaywallscomecrashingdown/ to Google’s chan

This article was originally published on What’s New in Publishinghttps://whatsnewinpublishing.com/netflixfornewsthinkagain, on 15th January 2019. The question of how the media can make money from the

Imagine a world of cash only spending, but where the smallest unit of currency is a £10 note. And in this world, pricing hasn’t adjusted to that: if you want something cheap, you either need to buy a

The news industry is facing a crisis, and it has hit local and regional newspapers particularly hard. Print numbers are dropping, and online content isn’t making up the difference with digital adverti

It took a long time for the news industry to really embrace the reality that they need consumer revenues to survive and thrive. Having reached it, though, a new pessimism seems to be growing. The init

This article originally appeared on What’s New In Publishing, on 26/10/2018. You can read it herehttps://whatsnewinpublishing.com/2018/10/howinnovativetechnologycouldfurtherthepotentialformicropayment